Filing charges late last week, King County prosecutors claim Davenport shot two other young men at a Beacon Hill park. Davenport, a Kent resident, was arrested Aug. 19 on unrelated drug charges and has since been charged in the shooting.

Described by prosecutors as a member of a South Seattle street gang, Davenport is alleged to have opened fire at Benefit Park just before 7 p.m., shooting one 22-year-old man in the back and a 24-year-old in the backside. Prosecutors claim Davenport then dropped the .45 cal. pistol at a busy playground before fleeing the area.

Writing the court, a Seattle Police Department detective said Davenport, the victims and about 60 others had gathered at the park to remember Lapoint, a boy killed during a rash of shootings in the summer of 2008. Lapoint, 16, was fatally shot while walking on Rainier Avenue South; his killing remains unsolved.

Davenport had been at the cookout most of the afternoon before the situation soured for reasons unclear, the detective told the court. He’d been shooting dice with the victims and others.

The detective said Davenport opened fire without warning. He is believed to have fired seven to 10 shots, striking each victim once in the back.

“Between the shooter and the direction he was shooting was several young kids who were running and trying to get away,” the detective said in charging papers.

“The shots were fired over the heads of small children,” he continued, adding that Davenport “dropped his gun by the playground where several more kids were playing.”

Davenport was driven from the park in a waiting car, according to charging papers.

The injured men were rushed to Harborview Medical Center in a pickup truck driven by a friend. Blood and a fired bullet were found in the truck.

The 22-year-old shot in the back during the cookout said he heard three shots, then felt a burning sensation in his chest and fell to the ground. He tried to pull himself behind a tree as the shooting continued.

Detectives found the young man’s handprints in the dirt where he clawed at the ground to pull himself to safety. He told investigators he thought he was going to die.

The bullet passed through the 22-year-old's chest and left him with life-threatening injuries.

“I could see that (he) was in terrible pain and it was a labor for him to move around and talk,” the detective said in charging papers.

The other injured man, a 24-year-old, was also in extreme pain when police spoke with him the following day. Shot in the backside, the man suffered injuries to several internal organs; he credibly told police that he couldn’t remember the shooting or how he arrived at the hospital.

“He was glad to be alive,” the detective told the court.

Davenport is described by prosecutors as a member of the Down With The Crew street gang. His criminal history includes convictions for assault and robbery.

Now charged with two counts of first-degree assault and unlawful gun possession, Davenport is jailed on $760,075 bail. He also faces drug charges in two unrelated matters earlier this year.